I was looking for some statistics on Canada’s bottled water consumption recently, and I came across an interesting fact.
According to Statistics Canada, while there is there is a strong relationship between wealth and drinking bottled water, and there is also a strong relationship between having a university education and having wealth, there is a lower likelihood of drinking bottled water in the home IF members of the household have a university degree. The StatCan report says, “It is possible that university graduates are more aware of the environmental issues surrounding bottled water. They may also be more sceptical of the claims that bottled water is a healthier choice than tap water.”
I hope that this shows, at minimum, that education can make a difference in helping people make better choices, be they about packaging and waste, habitat preservation, the global effects of burning fossil fuels… or any other important issue.
Did you have a turning point in your environmental thinking, where learning something new made you change what you do?
